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lucianusSunday 12. December
Word has come that my Lord did arrive in Dieppe two days past and will come to Rouen in a day’s time; this day the sergeant of the pioneers who did plot to turn his men to the enemy was condemned and all of them, some 50 or 60 men, were assembled by a tree but only the sergeant was hanged as an example to them all; after supper came intelligence that the enemy did plan to press our quarter so the guards were doubled and the sentinels cautioned to watch their posts most carefully and thus we did sleep the night with open eyes.
Essex’s arrival in Dieppe is mentioned in a letter from him to Queen Elizabeth date Dec. 12 in which he states he arrived in Dieppe on the 10th. The execution of the sergeant and the report of the possible enemy push is attested to in Coningsby.
Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 60. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)
Bourchier Devereux, Walter, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex, Vol. I, p. 265.
Word has come that my Lord did arrive in Dieppe two days past and will come to Rouen in a day’s time; this day the sergeant of the pioneers who did plot to turn his men to the enemy was condemned and all of them, some 50 or 60 men, were assembled by a tree but only the sergeant was hanged as an example to them all; after supper came intelligence that the enemy did plan to press our quarter so the guards were doubled and the sentinels cautioned to watch their posts most carefully and thus we did sleep the night with open eyes.
Essex’s arrival in Dieppe is mentioned in a letter from him to Queen Elizabeth date Dec. 12 in which he states he arrived in Dieppe on the 10th. The execution of the sergeant and the report of the possible enemy push is attested to in Coningsby.
Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 60. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)
Bourchier Devereux, Walter, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex, Vol. I, p. 265.
